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Courts & crime, 1887

4,317 stories in Sydney's papers · page 21 of 216

Small Debts Court

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 5

C. A. Taylor v. C. Jones, claim for £5 9s 6d for goods sold and delivered. Verdict for costs 13s, amount of claim having been paid…

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Insolvency Court. SURRENDERS

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 441

Charles Maodonald, of Henrietta-street, Waverley, commission agent. Liabilities, £179 3s. Assets, £15. Mr. Morris, official assignee. Sydney Samuel Green, of Emily-street, Marrickville…

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Divorce Court Literature

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 13

"BY their fruits shall ye know them," and one of the fruits of the easy Divorce Courts is a filthy mass of garbage with which the moral sanitary authorities are puzzling their…

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Metropolitan District Court. Friday. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Wilkinson.) Gilroy V. SHOPPEE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 8

The plaintiff was-Michael Gilroy, carpenter, of Crownstreet, Surry Hills. The defendant was P. J. Shoppee, auctioneer, of Bathurst-street, Sydney. The plaintiff claimed £20, the amount of a deposit paid by him to Mr…

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The Colonial Judges and the Court of Shame

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 18

HIS Honor Sir William Manning sat in the Divorce on Tuesday, and the hearing of the suit of Blake v. Blake was continued. Beforo proceeding with the case the Judge intimated…

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Cowra District Court and Quarter Sessions. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 4

COWRA, Friday.--The District Court wh opened yesterday before Judge Docker. Several cases were heard, the most important being the suit Messrs. Harrison, Jones and Devlis…

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Insolvency Court.—friday. (Before the Chief Commissioner.) Second Meetings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 8

In the estate of Robert Phillips, adjourned from the 6th December. Ten debts were proved, and two were ordered to stand over for better particulars. Mr. Alfred Charles Johnson was elected creditors' assignee. The insolvent…

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Metropolitan Quarter Sessions. Friday. (Before Mr. District Court Judge DOWLING.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 8

Mr. W. L. Merewether prosecuted on behalf of the Crown. SENTENCES. Alexander Carling, who was found guilty on the…

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The Treasury, New South Wales, 14th February, 1887. Tenders for Clothing for Police Force

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 5

TENDERS will be received at this office until noon of Thursday, the 3rd proximo, from persons willing to supply the undermentioned clothing for the police force, viz.:— 300 helmets and covers, cork lined…

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Police News. Parramatta. Wednesday, February 23. (Before Messrs. H. Byrnes and F. Beames, Js.P.)

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 9

CHARLES PARKES AYLING applied to have an order for maintenance of his wife, Elizabeth Ayling, [?] from 15s to 6d per weak. Mr. Bowden appeared for the appellant. It was…

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Supreme Court Proceedings. "The only thing certain about litigation is its uncertainty." —BOVEE

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 14

The Full Court has actually been able to deal with no less than five equity appeals this week, and, in doing so, has cleared off as much as can be touched during the present term. In the…

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Law Report. Supreme Court.—friday, February 25. In Banco.—(Before their Honors the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice FAUCETT, and Mr. Justice Innes.) the Queen V. Samuel and Michael Lecount

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 February 1887 · page 8

Mr. Pitcairn appeared for the Crown, and the prisoners were represented by Mr. Field. The case, as stated by Mr. District Court Judge M'Farland, before whom the prisoners were [?]ried at Cooma…

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Police

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1887 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph

Mr. G. W. F. Addison, presided in the Charge Division of the WATER POLICE COURT on Saturday, Mary M 'Meow was sentenced to two months' imprisonment, with hard labour, for having no visible lawful means of…

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Insolvency Court. Saturday, February 26. Surrenders

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 February 1887 · page 3

William Martin Thomson, of Lismore. Liabilities, £859 17s.; assets, £1010. Mr. L. T. Lloyd, official assignee. Joseph A. Draper, of Newcastle, blacksmith…

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Law Report. Insolvency Court.—saturday, February 26. Surrenders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1887 · page 5

William Martin Thomson, of Lismore, Richmond River, boarding-house keeper. Assets, £859 17s. Liabilities, £1010. Mr. L T. Lloyd, official assignee. Joseph A. Draper, of Newcastle, blacksmith. Liabilities,…

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Metropolitan Quarter Sessions. Saturday. (Before Mr. District Court Judge Dowling.) Embezzlement

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1887 · page 5

Stuart de Joney Millne, who pleaded guilty to embezzlement on three counts, was placed in the dock to receive sentence. The prisoner had already been sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment, and Mr. Barry, solioitor, who…

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Police

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 March 1887 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At the Newtown Court yesterday, before Mr. T. K. Abbott. S.M., John Flanagan, licensee of the Queen's Hotel, Eamore, for refusing admission to Senior-constable Higgins on Sunday,…

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Insolvency Court

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 1 March 1887 · page 3

TUESDAY.--Wm. Nichoison, Michael Menser, Herbert Greenland, Henry Mortlock, James Tye,Patrick Melloy, Henry Johnson. Daniel Heffernan, David McKay, Win. Geo. Kirchner. Adrain Omar Sahvan and…

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